Hardly anything has been written or said more in recent weeks than about the paper by Trump’s new economic adviser, Stephan Miran, which forms the basis for the so-called Mar-a-Lago Accord, a new attempt to find multilateral solutions to the global monetary system. …
One of Donald Trump’s most important trade advisors, Peter Navarro, defended the American president’s trade policies some time ago in an article in the Financial Times, making at least one very strong point that went unnoticed in continental Europe. …
Jeffrey Sachs says: ‘A country’s trade deficit (more precisely, its current account deficit) is not an indication of unfair trade practices by the surplus countries. It points to something quite different. A current account deficit means that the deficit country is spending more than it produces. …
